Feleipe Franks' Pass Breakdown, and how he can improve.

bro, you've got way too much time on your hands.

The game plan was fricked from the start.

Straw, you must have watched a different game than i did. Franks was constantly pressured and hit several times after or during his throw. He didn't have a good game, made some bad throws, some bad reads, missed some wide open receivers but the O-line was terrible in protection and run blocking this game. The fault for a lousy offensive game is 70% on them.

And we just missed another tackle on defense and gave up another first down.

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The game plan was fricked from the start.

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The idea that Mullen would call a game that would "put Franks in the best situation to be successful" is, needless to say, untrue in this respect.

However, I can't imagine Mullen asked Franks to throw downfield as often as he did, especially since the % was on the short game. 16 - 21 are outstanding numbers, with only one potential interception.

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Is that where UKs Josh Allen hit him from the blind side?

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No, it'd be where he fumbled a play-action play with no one around him for five to six yards.

This is the evidence to the unforced fumble, not his forced fumble.

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Straw, you must have watched a different game than i did. Franks was constantly pressured and hit several times after or during his throw.

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Maybe ESPN watched a different game too, which is why on 43 passing attempts Kentucky only had 4 hurries logged. Rewatch the majority of his bad passes, there isn't someone within 3 yards of him as evidenced here:



This is just one example, if you guys really need me to, I can show you all six potential interceptions. Not a single one was because of a hurry.

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Straws has something against Franks and will be calling for Franks to be benched till he on the bench or off the team . Franks is not our problem.

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Nearly throwing six picks in a game is a Franks problem.

Throwing and nearly throwing picks with no pressure is a Franks problem, and maybe I do need to get MORE pictures of him throwing stupid passes with very little pressure.

Hitting 44.7% if your passes when you only have 4 hurries on 43 passes is a Franks problem.

Fumbling a play-action (as evidenced in the link above) with no pressure is a Franks problem.

Like I said, unless we severely limit Franks' ability to make choices, he will always be the same old useless Quarterback he's always been, which leads me to the next Chapter:

Either Mullen called a very poor game (as I stated in response directly to Slayer), and he wanted Franks to throw downfield more often or Franks elected the downfield options.

Either way, Mullen has got to pull him aside and say: Franks, you can't throw downfield so stop trying. You're just not good at it. 4/22 for all intermediate/deep passes is abysmal.

Either Franks is off his leash and doing as he pleases, or Mullen actually doesn't know his Quarterback's limitations. We'll see what happens in the Colorado State game, but this isn't a good sign for Franks or Mullen if this isn't corrected by next week.

Heard the same thing last year, doubted it last year.

Heard the same thing about Harris over Driskel, doubted it then.

Heard the same thing about Harris over Grier, doubted it then.

Hearing the same thing this year, doubting it this year.

I agree with giving Franks his chance to redeem himself, that chances was at Kentucky.

This is his chance to keep his job, and elect shorter passes and get the ball out quicker. If he loses this chance, I think we should move on.

If he doesn't continue to improve, I agree, but give the guy a chance, He is better than last year. I don't know what his ceiling is yet and he is the best we have, per the coaches, who are paid to know.

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I mean, I hate to say it, because it is my least favorite thing to say, but this early you have to trust the coaches.

Dan Mullen has a strong track record with QBs. I assume he knows something we don't.

Or he is an idiot and he won't be employed here in 3 years, making TJ the smartest fricker around.

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There is no way I'm crunching these numbers and Mullen isn't. Franks hit over 70% of his short passes, under 25% of his longer passes. He had 6 potential interceptions, 5 of them were intermediate and 4 of those intermediate potential interceptions were dropped. He was hurried 4 times out of 43 and only one potential interception was due to a hurry.

All Mullen has to do is turn this into a one-read offense, or at most two read.

Play 1: Short pass isn't there, RUN.

Play 2: Intermediate pass isn't there (you see safeties staying back), checkdown.

Franks seems to hate the checkdown for some reason, and it's one of the reasons that Fromm is so successful at Georgia. Almost every other play he just hits his HB out of the backfield and make easy money.

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what are going to do when the defense packs the box and takes away the short pass and dump off, coach Straws?

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then go deep. keep up Matt.

A more in depth breakdown of Feleipe Franks inability to read the play.

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Mullen keeps telling Frank's "you never go broke taking a profit" but he either can't or wont check the ball down. We have talented backs and it was WIDE OPEN several times throughout the gam

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I think the bigger problem is Franks really, really wants to be a different type of Quarterback. He doesn't want to be Jake Fromm checking down 60% of his passes and taking safe routes the other 40%.

Fromm rarely throws interceptions because he almost never takes chances.

He wants to be Franks, high flying, long bombing, airing it out. He could literally be a very successful Quarterback if he'd just stop throwing it downfield so often and occasionally hit someone out of the backfield.